Review of Queenpins (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 04 Dec 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

Cute, nice, polite, sometimes funny: how quickly will I forget it?

This review of Queenpins (2021) was written by Mauro_Lanari on 04 Dec 2021.

Queenpins has generally received mixed reviews.

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Writers and directors Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly can’t seem to decided whether to make an offbeat comedy about two under-appreciated…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Sep 2021

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 08 Sep 2021

The first act of “Queenpins” makes you giddy at the comic possibilities, but the finale is the final straw in the letdown it too-quickly becomes…

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By Jen Chaney (126) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 10 Sep 2021

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The crime comedy ends not as a fat stack of jokes but a jumble of loose change — not entirely worthless, but not amounting to a whole lot, either…

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By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2021

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By Tara Bennett (62) for IGN (1,013) on 10 Sep 2021

Queenpins works best when Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste are allowed to let their effortless chemistry be the focus…

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By Kristen Page-Kirby (44) for Washington Post (9,851) on 08 Sep 2021

A good story lurks somewhere in Queenpins, but Gaudet and Pullapilly take the easy way out at every plot point and with nearly every joke…

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